Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nissan Saurus

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:31, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nissan Saurus

Concept car with no claim in article of meeting WP:Notability. Just 10 gnews hits[1], several of which appear to be the same story in different papers. Contested prod. Fabrictramp | talk to me 15:26, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 15:27, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Article indicates it influenced a production model and a racing series. So it seems quite notable. If not worth an independent article could also be merged. ChildofMidnight (talk) 18:41, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If we had some independent, reliable sources that showed it was a notable influence, I'd have no problem keeping the article. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any. Is there a logical merge target? I didn't see one.--Fabrictramp | talk to me 19:19, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to List of Nissan vehicles. It's verifiable that this vehicle exists, so information about it belongs on Wikipedia; but it's not notable so it doesn't get its own article.—S Marshall ^Talk/_Cont 21:13, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I added some sources. Unfortuantely a lot of the content is not free. It's also a Japanese car so a source check there is needed. The car inspired a racing series and was put into production as a racing kit car. So it seems quite notable especially considering this is something from teh late 80s. There's also [2] and [3] and [4]. ChildofMidnight (talk) 22:48, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As I commented on CoM's talk page, nationmaster.com is a Wikipedia mirror.--Fabrictramp | talk to me 23:25, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. My mistake. But I believe that article (1 of the three I posted...) mirrors a different article on Wikipedia than this one nominated, but one that is also related to this car line? So merging those two would make more sense than deleting either in my opinion. ChildofMidnight (talk) 00:43, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. —Fg2 (talk) 09:30, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, the car did go on from being a concept car, it became a racing car for its own one-make series. Kyosho even made a RC car of it which a friend used to own. Donnie Park (talk) 14:49, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I agree that the limited number of sources is an issue, but there are enough to confirm its existence and confirm the basic details; I just added a 1987 German newspaper article as a source for a partially-filled in infobox about the vehicle. There's enough to suggest its notability and influence, and it's in decent enough shape that future editors can improve it using offline sources or the inevitable expansion of more free archives by Google and others. 68.167.253.27 (talk) 01:24, 9 May 2009 (UTC).[reply]
Keep Even without an significant actual production run, it appears to be notable. If there were actual cars produced, then certainly. DGG (talk) 03:15, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.